## topdown rotations

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### topdown rotations

Hey guys so im kinda stuck on a problem with getting a topdown image to rotate the right way.
Heres my image.
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I'm trying to get the image to rotate towards the middle of the screen no matter where it comes from.
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I already have the ships moving towards the earth and calculate the angle from whatever coords they spawn at using

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local angle = math.atan2((Earth.Y + Earth.Height / 2)- (RaidGroup[i][4] + 32 / 2), (Earth.X + Earth.Width / 2)- (RaidGroup[i][3] + 32 / 2))
32 being height and width of the image.
I then plug that into

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love.graphics.draw()
as such

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for i = 1,#RaidGroup do
love.graphics.draw(Aliens.FrigateImages[1], RaidGroup[i][3], RaidGroup[i][4], RaidGroup[i][8], 1, 1, 32/2, 32/2)
end

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angle = angle + math.rad(136)
i cannot get the ship to face the direction its going.
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### Re: topdown rotations

Your image faces a specific angle instead of to the right, which necessitates adding 180-45=135! Degrees to the angle. (Rotating by a half circle counterclockwise and by an eight clockwise from what would be a 0 degree offset)
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### Re: topdown rotations

zorg wrote:
Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:50 am
Your image faces a specific angle instead of to the right, which necessitates adding 180-45=135! Degrees to the angle. (Rotating by a half circle counterclockwise and by an eight clockwise from what would be a 0 degree offset)
Got it wasn't sure what orientation the image should be to work without a offset. Thanks!

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